the japanese are very cautious of mixing anything with their rice.. there are a few exceptions.. curry rice, chahan, etc. but most times, it's just white rice. now, they also put furikake which can be multiple types of things on top of the rice, but not always.

the sushi is dipped into shoyu (soy sauce) with the fish side down or away from the rice, so as to flavor the item on the rice and not the rice itself. dipping the rice side down is frowned upon, but it won't get you put in jail or anything.. lol

(I found out that traditionally one does not mix wasabi in the shoyu, even though it seems most of the people in tohoku like to mix the two together. so that might be a cultural or territorial thing.)

Why do so many people create new threads with a question in the title that actually isn't their question? I'm so sick of seeing some stupid question in the title and then opening the thread to find that the first post is "I know the answer is no."

And the soy sauce isn't for the rice, it's for the fish that's on the top of the rice. It's simply really difficult to try to apply the sauce only to the fish (and stupid since it's all going to be mashed together one second later anyway).

keatonatron wrote:Why do so many people create new threads with a question in the title that actually isn't their question? I'm so sick of seeing some stupid question in the title and then opening the thread to find that the first post is "I know the answer is no."

It's nice to see that someone else also cares for accurate thread titles!

keatonatron wrote:Why do so many people create new threads with a question in the title that actually isn't their question? I'm so sick of seeing some stupid question in the title and then opening the thread to find that the first post is "I know the answer is no."

It's nice to see that someone else also cares for accurate thread titles!

I hate it when people change the complete topic of what the thread is in the first place too. :p